The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-17

Troy was a sterling citizen and was highly
esteemed. He1eaxes widow, son and
daughter
The Clifton strike has about terminated
as TO its immediate results. Many OF the
families saw that they had made mistake
in raising groundless issue, and as one
false step generally leads TO another, the
leaders concluded TO resist all efforts TO dis
possess them of their hous by legal pro-
cess. The company submitted patiently TO
the laws delay, and crowded their new
hands in such rooms as they could spare.
After two or three trials, with decisions
against the hands, only one, Mr.. Busley,
was elected. He took it in the most pleas
ant manner, laughing while the officer was
moving his furniture out of the house. The
others have vacated. or are endeavoring TO
get new places. This ends the Clifton
strike.
A little girl, who CHANGED to pass through
a piece of woods about quarter of mile
from Chicks Springs, ON the Air Line road,
Thursday, came upon the body of man,
apparently dead. She hastened to give the
alarm, and neighbors who hurried to the
spot found Joe Ferguson, negro, who
lived in the neighbOrhood, lying uncon-
scious and nearly dead, with his skull
crushed in as if by severe blow from some
heavy instrument. Ferguson had been
missing since Wednesday. Thursday after
noon ten-cent piece was picked up near
the spot where Ferguson was found, and
this has given rise to the theory that he was
attacked and robbed At the last report
the wounded man had not regained con-
sciousneSs, and death is considered certain.
Samuel T. Browne, of Columbia, has
been appointed Assistant Paymaster United
States navy, and will embark on the United
States steamship Nipsic, at the Brooklyn
navy yard on Wednesday next, for three
years cruise around the world Mr.. Browne
is a son of the Rev. Sid H. Browne, of Co
lumbia, and is % years old. Four or five
years ago he started himself in journalism
by becoming the South Carolina correspond
ent of various metropolitan newspapers.
Three years ago he entered the service of
the Richmond and Danville railroad in Co
lumbia, and when the headquarters were
removed to Washington he accompanied
the Auditor, John Craig, to that city. Six
months ago he became the assistant in the
administrative department of Vice Presi-
dent John B. Palmer of the Atlantic Coast
Line, with headquarters at Richmond. Last
Thursday he was offered the position of
assistant paymaster in the navy.
President Duncan is pushing his plan
for having during the fair an experience
meeting of old planters, men who have
planted forty years and who would like to
| discuss purely agricultural matters and
| plan is to get three of these old planters
| from each county, and he wishes TO get the
name of applicants for transportation on
this account as soon as possible. Col. Dun
can may be addressed at Union. 1t is essen
| tial that applicants shall send their names
and the railroad station from which they
propose to start General Passenger Agent
Taylor, of the Richmond and Danville sys-
| tenn, has promised to furnish free passes to
such of these veterans as will leave points
on his lines, and the officers of other roads
will doubtless follow his good example, adj
| ding by their assistance novel feature to
| the fair. Col Duncan's first applicant is rs
years old, and has been planting fifty two
years, has been steward in his church for
| forty-seven years, has never bought a
bushel of corn and has never been to Co
lumbia.
| A patent has just been granted D. H. D.
King, of Greenville for an automatic tor =
pedo placer and railroad signal. Mr.. Kings
| invention is intended to take the place OF
| fiagmen on the track, and consists of com
| pact mechanism mounted on a carriage
3 feet long. 6 inches wide and 6 high, and
| fitted with stwo broad, Hanged wheels be-
fore and behind, enabling it to run on a
| single rail. The motive power is furn S ned
by an electric storage battery. The ma chine
is placed on the track in case of accident,
and runs rapidly to a distance which may
be regulated, say five or six hundred yards,
placing signal torpedoes every sixty
yards. When the limit for which it
is set is reached, the machine, by an
automatic contrivance, overturns itself
on the outside of the track. In addition,
for day use, the machine carries flag signals,
and for night it is fitted with rockets in
tended to signal in cuts and around curves.
Mr. King is the inventor of the King cotton
press, Star press, King distributor and
other machines His last invention is an
attempt to solve the problem of reducing to
a minimum railway accidents, two-thirds
of which are caused, he says, by collision.
He has made repeated experiments with
working models and the machine worked
perfectly. A public exhibition will be given
of its working there next week. Frank
Hammond President of the Peoples Bank,
is associated with him in the invention.
Two Baltimore bellies, Miss Byron and Miss
| Smith, are counted the most graceful horse
| women in the South. They are the envy of all